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050 4 _aBP 191
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100 1 _aMcHugo, John,
_d1951-
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA concise history of Sunnis & Shi'is /
_cJohn McHugo.
246 3 _aConcise history of Sunnis and Shi'is
264 1 _aWashington, DC :
_bGeorgetown University Press,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmaps, genealogical tables
500 _a"First published 2017 in Great Britain by Saqi Books"--Title page verso
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIn the Beginning : Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is -- How Civil War Came to Islam -- Of Umayyads and Abbasids -- The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is -- Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis -- How Iran Became Shi'i -- The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation -- The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominance -- Between the Two World Wars -- Tides Ebb and Flow -- The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War -- From the Iranian Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq -- Wedges into Fault-Lines.
520 _aA fascinating and richly layered account of how and why the great divide in Islam--between Sunnis and Shi'is--occurred. Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Mohammed to the present day, McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi'ism evolved as different and contending sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the empires of the Sunni Ottomans and Shi' Sfavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. Today the full, destructive force of this historical conflict for the soul of the Muslim world is expressed by the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran--with no end in sight. Definitive, insightful, and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development, and manipulation of the schism that has come to define Islam and the Muslim world. Includes five black & white maps, a glossary, and a list of sources and further reading.
588 0 _aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2018).
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650 0 _aIslamic sects
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSunnites
_xHistory.
650 0 _aShiites
_xHistory.
650 6 _aSectes islamiques
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aSunnites
_xHistoire.
650 6 _aChiites
_xHistoire.
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900 _cPhotocopy
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